FM TOC reference page generation

Question

Is there a way to force FM to use a document's modified TOC reference page instead of it generating a second one when creating a separate TOC file?

Answer 1

Wes Edmonds wrote:
I modified the TOC reference page of the document I completed as follows:
openXmlElementId <$relfilename>:<$UniqueXmlElementId> <$RelativeXmlElementId>
openObjectId <$relfilename>:<$ObjectType> <$ObjectId>
<$elemtextonly>
       <$paranum>\t<$elemtextonly> ......................................................................<$pagenum >
            <$paranum>\t<$elemtextonly> .................................................................<$pagenum>
                    <$paranum>\t<$elemtextonly> .........................................................<$pagenum>
                    <$paranum>\t<$elemtextonly> .........................................................<$pagenum>
Each of these lines is formatted with its own Paragraph Tag (ie. Pgblk()TOC, Task()TOC, etc) which are Tahoma, 10pt.
When I generate a standalone TOC clicking [Special] >Table of Contents... > [Yes] (Do you want to creat a standalone TOC for this doc?), the new standalone TOC will not look like I expect and in the reference pages and I will have a second TOC ref page named "TOC1" with the following code:
<$elemtextonly> <$pagenum>
openXmlElementId <$relfilename>:<$UniqueXmlElementId> <$RelativeXmlElementId>
openObjectId <$relfilename>:<$ObjectType> <$ObjectId>
<$elemtextonly> <$pagenum>
<$elemtextonly> <$pagenum>
<$elemtextonly> <$pagenum>
<$elemtextonly> <$pagenum>
Each of these lines are in default Times New Roman font, 12pt and seems to be what FM uses to generate the TOC instead of my modified reference page from the original doc. 
I remember having this happen a few years ago, probably in FrameMaker 7.x, perhaps 6.x. I can't remember ever finding its cause, or a remedy that avoids it. A quick Google search today didn't reveal the secret fix, though, I didn't dig deep into the results.
My solution was to import the TOC formats into the TOC<#> from either the document set's TOC template, or the main TOC document itself. This should fix the page layouts and text properties, but will not change the page references, etc., so the reformatted TOC should be what you expect.
An alternate approach is to create a copy of the TOC template in the directory where the chapter TOC will be created, name and save it to the TOC<#> that you anticipate will be generated. IIRC, generating the chapter TOC will fill the anticipated TOC with correct information formatted correctly.
Another option is to create a container TOC document with the correct formatting and import the generated TOC into it - this depends on having a version of FrameMaker that can import FM files.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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